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Trouble sleeping

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I have such a difficult time of sleeping. I'm autistic and I suffer with anxiety as well, also grief after losing my sister in 2015. At some point over time I began having difficulty with sleeping. It might have been before 2015 but I noticed it most after Alice died, and since then my stresses have gotten worse what with every day life stuff going on. My stress has been a lot worse again of late, I tried working again, it didn't go well and I feel like that's set me back some what.

I've always had issues with sleeping, as a child I was infuriating my mum said because I wouldn't go to bed because I was never tired and then I woke several times every night. This continued well in to late childhood and even in to my teens. I sleep, then wake, and then sleep again, and then wake up. That has been my night routine for years. On the surface it doesn't sound much of a problem but overall it's affecting me badly - my immune system is bad now, I'm always tired, body aches and I get so much anxiety it's hard to get through the day with it.

I don't know what I'm hoping for writing this. Maybe just to know it isn't only me like this? Or some help? I don't know. Sorry, this isn't a good first post.

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  • From a biological standpoint, there's research that the immune system, hormone balance and GABA supposedly all work together in some way which helps regulate our body. Since the mods here don't quite recognise the difference between discussion on the science of how things work vs med advice, would suggest you hunt down research in peer reviewed journals on how this works and ways to find balance. Many new discoveries are being made largely due to Covid offsetting the gut-microbiota which triggers this triad to go off balance. Some of this research is helping take a new look at Au/ADHD'rs and why we might be different. 

    I've found wholistic ways to keep something of a balance... if interested in talking about garden herbs, fungi, sea-creatures and such. 

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  • From a biological standpoint, there's research that the immune system, hormone balance and GABA supposedly all work together in some way which helps regulate our body. Since the mods here don't quite recognise the difference between discussion on the science of how things work vs med advice, would suggest you hunt down research in peer reviewed journals on how this works and ways to find balance. Many new discoveries are being made largely due to Covid offsetting the gut-microbiota which triggers this triad to go off balance. Some of this research is helping take a new look at Au/ADHD'rs and why we might be different. 

    I've found wholistic ways to keep something of a balance... if interested in talking about garden herbs, fungi, sea-creatures and such. 

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